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  • #75357
    Michu
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    Sorry, this was a double post!

     

    • This reply was modified 9 months ago by Rik Hoving.
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    #75356
    Michu
    Participant

    Yesterday i have finished modifying the grill (just some fine tuning work left), see some before, in between and after pictures below. The headlight buckets are now mounted from the back and the rings are tacked in place, some cuts in the fender where neccessary to get the rings in the right position/angle. Also i lowered the splash pan to get the grill a bit lower.

    IMG_0994IMG_0996Here a picture with the stock 42 grill (the fog lights idea is long gone) and one with the Cadillac grill nearly finished. What a difference!

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    #75362
    Rik Hoving
    Keymaster

    It looks fantastic Michu.

    Sorry your post was not working the first time. I had forgotten I had updated the website, and needed to add the special html to make sure new comments would be added to the “To be approved box”. It should be all back to normal now.

    Enjoy the beauty of Customizing

    #75364
    Mild Mitch
    Participant

    What a wonderful look! Very impressive Michu. Do you still need a Sombrero cap?

    Mitch

    #75366
    Michu
    Participant

    Thanks Rik! Also for fixing the post, i just deleted the double post.

    And thanks Mitch! Hubcapwise i will go with the ripple discs, but some time ago, if i remember right, you said you maybe have an spare 41 Buick fender skirt spear? I have a drivers side one and would love to make a set!

    #75367
    Mild Mitch
    Participant

    It will be sometime next week before I will be back in my shop. I will look to see what I have. I’ll let you know.
    Mitch

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    #75369
    Michu
    Participant

    Thanks Mitch!

    #75370
    Mild Mitch
    Participant

    <p style=”text-align: center;”>Michu</p>
    Here are front and back side of the only  intact spear/ trim I think I have.

    I’ve boxed and the weight is 6 kilo so you might be able to figure shipping cost. Let me know what it’s worth to you. You nake your price…

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    #75376
    John allen
    Participant

    This thread should be called “How to build a mild custom”. Bravo.

    #75377
    Michu
    Participant

    Thanks John, i appreciate that highly! And thanks Mitch for finding and boxing the spear, we definitely have to make a deal with it! Would it be ok for you to wait with it till next month? Right now i‘m on vacation in the US and this wrecked my bank account badly! But of course it‘s a great journey, yesterday we‘ve been at „Hidden Valley Auto Parts“ in Arizona, i just wanted to have a look and didn‘t expect to find any Custom parts. But when i was digging in a big hubcap stash between and under some vehicles and trailers i spotted something familiar buried under a lot of stuff. I pulled it out and i had a flipper hubcap in my hands! The flipper bar is missing but of course i had to take it!

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    #75380
    Tinwolf
    Participant

    What are the odds to find one of those gems in a junkyard , great score 🙂 !!

    #75381
    Mild Mitch
    Participant

    That’s so cool! Congratulations Michu!

    I’ll hold it, it’s yours if you want it. Like I said just tell me what it’s worth to you.

    Mitch

    #75471
    Michu
    Participant

    Some small updates, right now i play with bondo to get the final shape for the frenched headlights and the new grill opening. Of course i know that‘s not the most elegant way, but the car has a lot of filler on it so i‘m fine with some bondo.

    Also the bent axle is out, still with the wishbones on, i had no chance to get out the perches. Luckily i found a blacksmith not far from me, i brought him the axle/wishbone assembly and he will try to get the perches out.

    So hopefully soon i can put the „new“ axle back in and bleed the new brake.

    Then when the grill installing is done i have to find out what the reason for the unsteady ticking noise in the engine is. Tic, tictic, tic, tictictic, tic… It appeared the last time i started the engine, after about 10 seconds running. Sounds „valvy“, hopefully nothing major.
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    #75472
    Mild Mitch
    Participant

    Looks like great progress Michu!

    #75474
    Michu
    Participant

    Thanks Mitch😀

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